Automatic fire-kindler



No Model.

P. T. HAMBURG.

AUTOMATIC FIRE KINDLER.

Patented Mar. 3, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PEDER T. HAMBORG, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

AUTOMATIC FIRE-KINDLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,419, dated March 3, 1885. Application filed December 17, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PEDER T. HAMBURG, of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automatic Fire-Kindlers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improved time firelighter; and its object is to provide a simple device adapted to be placed within astov'e or made a part thereof, and suitably connected to an alarm-clock, whereby at any stated time the igniting device may be operated and the fire thereby kindled automatically.

The invention consists in the improved devices hereinafter fully described and claimed.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 represents the lighter or igniting device. Fig. 2 represents an ordinary alarm-c1ock modified to meet the requirements of my invention.

The igniting device (shown in Fig. 1 at A) may be made ,of wood or some combustible material, and thus burn with the rest of the kindlings when the fire is started. This of course will render it necessary to replace the igniter every time it is desired to kindle the fire. Instead, therefore, of making the device of combustible material, Imay make it of metal and place it within or make it a part of the stove. The preferred form of this device is as shown in Fig. 1; but it is obvious that it may be made in various forms without departing from the spirit of my invention. As shown,it is composed of a base, a, standard b, and the recessed raised portion 0. This latter part c is preferably recessed from end to end, and is adapted to receive the slide d, which has a roughened surface composed of any suitable material. This slide is capable of being drawn out from the recess, in the manner and for the purpose hereinafter described. The standard b has an opening large enough to receive the body of a match passing through it at an angle, and this opening is at such a distance from the slide d that when the match is inserted through said opening it will be held firmly with its end bearing on the slide.

This device, as before stated, is placed with= in the stove, or made a part thereof, and the kindlings or wood and other combustibles placed around it in such position as to ignite readily. When thus arranged,it will be seen that in order to ignite the materials it is only necessary to give the slide a slight jerk,and the frictional contact of the slide and match-head will ignite the latter and thus start the fire.

tomatically, I provide the following means: I take an ordinary alarm-clock of any suitable make, preferably of the kind shown, and extend the alarm key-shaft and screw-thread or bind it to a hook or make part of the key into a hook, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Upon this screw-threaded end or book, hanging loosely thereon, is a weight, 6, connected to the slide d by means of a cord or chain, f, as shown. The clock is placed in any suitable position not far distant from the grate in which the igniter is used and the alarm set to strike at a certain hour. When this hour arrives, the alarm will of course be sounded and the key and key-shaft thereof be revolved, which revolution will throw the weight from its support thereon and cause it to fall, this fall having the effect of quickly drawing upon the slide through the cord, and thus ig' niting the match and starting the fire. I may also remove the alarm-bell from the clock and place a small steam-whistle on a vessel containing water and placed on the stove. Thus when the fire has burned long enough to heat the water the steam will cause the whistle to sound.

I am aware that automatic fire-kindlers are cut of Beaufait, of May 25, 1875, and I limit my claims accordingly.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim is 1. In a fire-lighter, a device adapted to be placed within a stove, or made as part thereof, consisting of a match-holder, a match ,held

for igniting the same, and connections between such slide and an alarm-clock, whereby said slide is drawn from beneath the match at stated time, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a firefighter, a match-holder, a slide As my object is to perform this operation aunot broadly new, such being shownv in the patthereby in an inclined position,'and a slide containing roughened surface beneath the In testimony whereoflhavesigned my name same, and a weighted connection with the to this specification in the presence of two sub- [0 hooked or screw-threaded end of the key of scribing witnesses. an aiarnrclock, whereby when said key is re- 5 voived when an alarm is sounded said weight PEDER' HAMBORG' is made to fall and ignite the match in the \Vitnesses: holder by the withdrawal of the slide, as de- WVM. WISNER TAYLOR, scribed. i HIRAM R. ELLIS. 

